It's worth mentioning that you have a one-in-15 chance of winning something, even if it's just getting your dollar back, while the odds of winning the second-place $1 million prize (that is, matching five balls but not the megaball) are about 1 in 18.5 million.

Those numbers are hard for the average person to fathom, so maybe it's easier if we provide you a list of things that are way more likely than collecting a Mega Millions jackpot.

From the Harvard School of Public Health:

• Chances of dying from a bee sting: 1 in 6.1 million.

• Chance you will die from being struck by lightning: 1 in 3 million.

From the University of Maryland Medical Center:

• Chance of having conjoined twins: 1 in 200,000.

From U.S. Hole in One, which insures golf prizes for holes in one:

• The chance of an amateur golfer making a hole in one on a par-3 hole is about 1 in 12,500.

• The chance of a golfer hitting a hole in one on consecutive par-3 holes: 1 in about 156 million.

From a 2011 State Farm study on collisions between vehicles and deer:

• The chance of hitting a deer with a vehicle in Hawaii, the state where State Farm says deer-vehicle collisions are least likely, is 1 in 6,267.

From the National Weather Service:

• The chance of being struck by lightning over an 80-year lifetime: 1 in 10,000.

From the Florida Museum of Natural History, based on U.S. beach injury statistics in 2000:

• Chance of drowning and other beach-related fatalities: 1 in 2 million.